Motion characteristics related to the images are determined. A motion characteristics metadata portion is generated based on the motion characteristics, and is to be used for determining an optimal FRC operational mode with a downstream device for the images. The images are encoded into a video stream. The motion characteristics metadata portion is encoded into the video stream as a part of image metadata. The video stream is transmitted to the downstream device. The downstream receives the video stream and operates the optimal FRC operational mode to generate, based on the images, additional images. The images and the additional images are rendered on a display device at an image refresh rate different from an input image refresh rate represented by images encoded in the video stream.